Sheriff Arpaio's office schedules community meetings

PHOENIX -- The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will hold a series of
community meetings on Dec. 21 in connection with a court case in which the
agency was found to have systematically racially profiled Latinos during its
patrols.

The meetings were ordered by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in what the judge
said was an effort to rebuild public confidence in the agency.

Snow ruled in late May that the agency systematically singled out Latinos in
its regular traffic and special immigration patrols. Snow later ordered the
appointment of an independent monitor to ensure that the agency isn't making
unconstitutional arrests.